L-13 Light Industrial Workshop
Private Ladies & Gentlemen's Club for Art, Leisure & the Disruptive Betterment of Culture
THE FIRST ITEM FROM THE L-13 ARCHIVE, RARITIES and REJECTS SERIES
Jamie Reid
REPUBLIC BOX SET
Stamped and authenticated DAMAGED box set
From an original edition published by John Marchant Gallery in association with the L-13 Light Industrial Worksop on the occasion of ‘Multiplied Contemporary Editions Fair’, London 2015
Extremely limited supply of box sets with dents and other minor imperfections.
Continue reading “Jamie Reid REPUBLIC Box Sets Back In Stock”
L-13 Light Industrial Workshop and Blasé present
The L-13 Light Industrial Jumble Sale
being
Odds & Sods
Rarities & Rejects
Greatest Misses
and
Other Regurgitated Art Shit
from the Last 13 Years”
Blasé House, 55 Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, E9 5LH
19th – 21st October
We have been busy digging through the archives and have unearthed some RARE gems for a special auction hosted by Catawiki.
For more info on the lots and how it came about read on below for Steve Lowe’s interview with Abby from Catawiki.
Click here to view the L-13 archive items up for auction, and place bids before Monday 3rd of July.
The best things made at L-13 are either heinously misunderstood or woefully unrecognised.
Continue reading “The World-Famous Harry Adams Patented Finger of God Painting Machine”
In writing about the Situatiuonists (see previous post) I am reminded of one of my favourite ART HATE poster What is ART HATE? and possibly the best exhibition we ever did at L-13: Storm of Defence: or, What is ART HATE and Other Cuntish Questions.
The poster came first and is based on the story of the Situationists coming to London to give a presentation at the ICA in 1960. When the floor was opened to questions the first one demanded to know what, exactly, is Situationism.
Guy Debord retorted in French:
“We are not here to answer cuntish questions” to which the Situationists walked out and went to the bar.
Continue reading “What is ART HATE and Other Cuntish Questions”
Welcome to the L-13 News & Archive Pages
The idea behind this section is to write regular instalments that provide important anecdotal information about some aspect of our illustrious past. These accounts will be sporadic and in no particular order, but as this is the first entry it seems fitting to start at the beginning.